After rebirth, I rejected the rich yandere lady

A guy couldn't help but sigh. After all, boys of any age would imagine the scene of a beauty chasing them.

"People, that dude is tall and handsome. Moreover, just by looking at the Rolex on his wrist, you can tell he is wealthy. Why are you, barely over five feet seven, wearing a little genius cartoon watch, going crazy over here?" His friend couldn't help but speak up.

"Hey! What's wrong with five feet seven? When I jump, I'm almost six feet, okay? Maybe some girls like my style?"

"If thinking like this can provide you with more inspiration for your dreams at night, do whatever you want."

"I am going to hit you…"

...

Xu Musen and Yao Mingyue walked together to the lakeside where thick ice had formed during the winter, with many people skating on the rink.

The two instinctively stopped, looking at the expanse of ice before them.

This was also the place where their relationship had fundamentally changed.

"Xu Musen, I want to skate."

Yao Mingyue pointed at the ice.

"Aren't you afraid of falling in again?"

Xu Musen asked with a smile, recalling the bone-chilling cold of plunging into icy waters the previous year; every time he thought about it, it sent shivers up his spine.

"With you here, what is there to fear?"

Yao Mingyue said and then turned her head to look at Xu Musen with another thought, "Tell me, if Nuannuan and I both fell into the water, who would you save first?"

"Don't you girls have any fresh questions?"

Xu Musen was a bit speechless.

"I just want to know. Choose one!"

Yao Mingyue persisted.

Xu Musen shook his head: "Then we might as well go hand in hand into Round Three."

"Pfft…" Yao Mingyue was stunned for a moment but soon laughed: "Playboy, you don't have a single true word in your mouth."

"False questions only get false answers. From now on, we will be fine, without all this crazy stuff."

Xu Musen reached out and gently flicked her forehead.

Yao Mingyue looked at him for a long while before turning her head away: "Who is part of your 'we'… Scumbag."

Laughing, Xu Musen took her to get skating shoes.

He bought her a new pair and helped her take off her shoes. Although separated by cotton socks, Xu Musen could still feel that her little feet weren't very warm.

But knowing her temperament, he didn't stop her and simply helped massage her feet to stimulate the blood circulation before putting the fur-lined skates on her.

Hand in hand, they arrived at the skating rink where Xu Musen pulled her onto the ice, slowly gliding across. The winter wind was cold, but skating indeed brought a sense of freedom.

The two of them didn't talk much together, after all, it had been two lifetimes, all words had been said, yet just being together never grew tiresome.

Yao Mingyue watched the ice surface, a bit lost. The last time she had fallen into the icy water, in the memories where she couldn't distinguish between dreams and reality, many memories had surfaced.

If all of this were real, then she had really been too much in her last life.

She owed Xu Musen too much, even Nuannuan…

The images in Yao Mingyue's mind fluttered slightly, and she saw a vague scene of Nuannuan and her lying together on an operation table, and it seemed she faintly saw two familiar names on a tombstone…

"What are you daydreaming about?"

Xu Musen held her hand; Yao Mingyue's body was getting weaker, hardly warming up in his palm.

Yao Mingyue came back to her senses, her eyes reflecting the gloss from the barricaded area of the ice nearby: "There, that must be where we fell in last year, right?"

"Yes."

Xu Musen also looked over; that area had been cordoned off.

"That was so close. We might not have come back."

Yao Mingyue said, biting her lips slightly, a bit resentful towards Xu Musen: "You really went all out to save a stranger."

Xu Musen touched his nose, admitting he had indeed been a bit impulsive.

"I saved that little girl because I saw your reflection…"

"But you still shouldn't have… If it happened again today, would you still rush to save someone unquestionably?"

Xu Musen thought for a while before finally issuing a sighing laugh: "I'd still save them, but I wouldn't be as rash."

"Why?" Yao Mingyue didn't expect this answer.

"There's a saying, 'A noble man doesn't rescue; while rescuing is noble, one shouldn't put himself in danger,' because I'm no longer just myself."

Xu Musen said with a light laugh: "I'm still the child of my family, the boss who supports so many employees, Nuannuan's fiancé, and a certain little girl's Brother Musen… You all need me, and I can't let you pay for my nobility, because you all need me just as much."

Yao Mingyue's eyes fluttered; her gaze filled with both emotion and a hint of sorrow.

"I guess it's because of Nuannuan... You really are responsible."

Her voice was slightly sour.

Laughing, Xu Musen gently embraced her, soothing her aggrieved feelings: "It's also because of you. I'm also afraid. If something like that were to happen again and you were really hurt, I couldn't bear it, nor could I imagine what life would be like without you beside me."

"That's somewhat human of you to say…"

Yao Mingyue trembled slightly, burying her head in Xu Musen's chest, somewhat satisfied with his answer.

"So, don't be foolish in the future, I forbid you to save others recklessly, and I forbid you to disregard yourself."

Xu Musen gently patted her head, but Yao Mingyue looked up, her eyes reflecting the starry sky, a silly smile on her face: "If falling into the water once makes you never forget me, it's quite a good deal for me."